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17 Nov
2009
17 Nov
'09
9:54 a.m.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 23:57, Curiouslearn wrote: > Thanks everyone for replying. > > Mojca, in case you read this, can you please let me know what the > status on asymptote is. I read it***, but I already forgot what the state was. I had to find the thread where I suggested a few changes, but the main people involved were Michail and Aditya. (Those who knew what was going on behind the scenes.) (***I ofter skip threads where no "hot" keywords appear in subject. You can CC me if you don't get any answer from me for some reasonable time.) >From what I remember (Michail, please correct me if I'm wrong) and apart from what Aditya wrote: - you can always use standalone asymptote files to generate figures, for example: settings.tex="context"; texpreamble("\usetypescript[iwona]"); texpreamble("\usetypescript[antykwa-torunska]"); label("$A$",0,N,font("iwona")); label("$A$",0,S,font("antykwa")+red); - Aditya described the integrated graphics (\startASY ... \stopASY) pretty well - in a quick-and-dirty way it can be done easily, but more difficult to do it properly. If it would help you a lot to have a quick-and-dirty solution for that, let us know. Now that TeX Live includes asymptote it is much easier for everyone to test it. - Michail was working on 3D support (that is making 3D text out of tex labels), but I have no idea what the status of that is. > Alan, the tikz module does not work with MKIV. From what I have read > before, it seems it will not unless the creator of tikz makes some > changes to tikz package so that it works with Context. I am not sure > how likely that is. In past Till has *always* fixed any bug reported, but I have not heard from him since March (neither as reply to off-list requests nor any response to the mailing list). > Thomas or someone else can you please confirm that the pstricks module > works with MKIV. Also, where I can find the module? It is not there > with the other third party modules. It's part of ConTeXt core, but the problem is that one needs a separate TeX run (PSTricks only works with tex->dvips->ps2pdf and that is awfully slow). I cannot tell you if it works with mkiv - probably not, but I can only tell you that the number of users is limiting towards zero and with that number of users you are almost on your own. I would say that tikz is much better in almost any respect, but then ... I have no idea why Till has been so silent for such a long time. Mojca